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  • New York City Outsourcing Incineration

    - by Dara Hunt Con­grat­u­la­tions to Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work and oth­er orga­ni­za­tions on stop­ping a Cov­an­ta con­tract to incin­er­ate DC waste in an Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice community.  Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we have not suc­ceed­ed in stop­ping New York City’s plan, and a 20-year con­tract with Cov­an­ta Ener­gy to trans­port and burn 800,000 tons per year, or more, of New…

  • Remembering Marvin Wheeler

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network  When we formed Allen­town Res­i­dents for Clean Air (ARCA) in 2012, we could­n’t have kicked it off with­out Mar­vin Wheel­er, who found us as an active mem­ber of the West Park Civic Asso­ci­a­tion. As a retired school nurse, Mar­vin under­stood the health threat posed by the plan to burn 150…

  • Chinese Incinerator Plan Cancelled After Thousands Join Protests

    - by Mimi Lau, April 9, 2015, South Chi­na Morn­ing Post A west­ern Guang­dong city has can­celled a plan to build an incin­er­a­tor that prompt­ed a protest — of up to 10,000 peo­ple on some accounts — dur­ing which three police cars were flipped and a duty office vandalised. Luod­ing city gov­ern­ment post­ed two let­ters on its…

  • Shuttered Claremont, New Hampshire Incinerator to Reopen

    - by Patrick O’Grady, April 15, 2015, Val­ley News The shut­tered Whee­labra­tor incin­er­a­tor on Gris­som Lane was sold at auc­tion Tues­day for $1.63 mil­lion, with the buy­er say­ing he plans to use it to burn munic­i­pal waste. As sev­er­al bid­ders stood out­side the plant hop­ing to pick up pieces of equip­ment at a bar­gain price, auc­tion­eer Stu­art Mill­ner…

  • Landfill Keeps Rhode Island Incinerator Debate Alive

    - by Tim Faulkn­er, March 4, 2015, Eco RI News The seem­ing­ly annu­al debate about build­ing a waste incin­er­a­tor in Rhode Island resolved lit­tle on the issue this year, except that any such facil­i­ty is too expen­sive and like­ly at least 10 years from ever being built. The sole advo­cate for con­sid­er­ing an incin­er­a­tor is the oper­a­tor of…

  • Syracuse City Council Seeks Alternatives to Incineration

    - by Tim Knauss, March 2, 2015, Syracuse.com The city coun­cil today vot­ed against a 20-year exten­sion of Syra­cuse’s garbage dis­pos­al con­tract with the Ononda­ga Coun­ty Resource Recov­ery Agency, cit­ing a desire to pur­sue alter­na­tives to trash incineration. Syra­cuse remains oblig­at­ed under its exist­ing con­tract to haul waste to OCCRA’s trash plant near Jamesville through June…

  • Contaminated Love Canal Soil Going to Nebraska Incinerator

    - by Richard Pier­sol, March 1, 2015, Lin­coln Jour­nal Star About a thou­sand tons of con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed soil from the noto­ri­ous Love Canal envi­ron­men­tal dis­as­ter in New York is being shipped by rail to Kim­ball for incin­er­a­tion because the com­pa­ny that is dis­pos­ing of it ran into objec­tions from Cana­di­ans, who did­n’t want it. Love Canal, a neigh­bor­hood in…

  • One Bin for All?

    - by Melanie Scrug­gs, Texas Cam­paign for the Environment Right now, the City of Hous­ton is expand­ing its two-bin or “sin­gle-stream” recy­cling pro­gram to final­ly cov­er all the near­ly 350,000 homes that it ser­vices. As an avid zero waster, you may be think­ing two things: 1. It is fan­tas­tic that Hous­to­ni­ans final­ly have access to a…

  • Out of the Garbage Can and Into the Fire

    - by Mike Ewall So-called “waste-to-ener­gy” (WTE) is usu­al­ly a euphemism for trash incin­er­a­tion, dis­pos­ing of waste while mak­ing mod­est amounts of elec­tric­i­ty and some­times steam for heat­ing pur­pos­es. Now, waste-to-fuels (WTF?) — turn­ing waste into liq­uid fuels for trans­porta­tion — is start­ing to emerge as a sub­set of WTE. Not­ing their acronym prob­lem, the indus­try has…

  • Zero Waste to Landfill: How Incinerators Get Promoted

    - by Car­o­line Eader The incin­er­a­tor indus­try pro­motes a false belief that the only choic­es we have in han­dling our waste is to either burn it for ener­gy or to bury it in a land­fill. The exis­tence of what is known as a “waste-to-ener­gy” (WTE) facil­i­ty does not elim­i­nate the need for a land­fill. First, 10%…